The newspaper was founded by a printer and a reporter in 1884 as
The St. Louis Sunday Sayings. Renamed
The Evening Star-Sayings, it emerged as a competitor to the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which had been founded by the merger of two newspapers in 1878. The newspaper became the
St. Louis Star in 1896, and the
Star-Chronicle in 1905. It returned to the name
St. Louis Star in 1908; the
New St. Louis Star in 1913; and then back to the
St. Louis Star in 1914. In 1918, ''The Star's
circulation eclipsed that of local rival The Times
, which had exceeded 100,000 from 1916 to 1918. The Times
was Republican, while The Star'' considered itself nonpartisan. After several money-losing years that publisher Elzey Roberts attributed to "ever-mounting labor and material costs", the
Star was sold in 1951 to
Pulitzer Publishing Co., publisher of the
Post-Dispatch. The
Star published its final edition on June 15, 1951. ==References==